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Thursday, 26 June 2014

Things You Have To Know About Reading Disorders

By Sherry Gross


It is actually nice to engage yourself in reading a lot of books. Needless to say, it can make you smarter due to the endless things you will know when you open a page. But other than that, you will also find it entertaining to formulate visualizations in your brain when decoding stories and various literature books. You will surely enjoy the feeling.

But aside from the joy and recreation it brings, it also benefits you a lot. Basically, it assists you in your struggles with your academic endeavors as well as with your dealings with life. Given this, the skill of knowing how to read holds a very valuable role in life. But there are some disabilities which can which cause some impediments in the skill called the reading disorders.

This disorder is identified if there is a recognizable impairment in reading such as in speed, accuracy, and comprehension. But it is only diagnosed to be a disability if the impairment goes to as much as affecting the academic achievement of a person as well as his daily living. In other terms, people call this disability as dyslexia.

However, with dyslexia, the only deficits that are tackled are the deficits in writing and spelling. But with this disorder, the case is associated with learning disorder. Basically, learning disability is defined as the case where there is a significant disparity with ones general intelligence and skills. So it means that even with normal intelligence, one finds reading extremely difficult.

So this means to say that people who suffer from this are not dull, mentally retarded, of having physical disabilities such as poor eyesight, poor hearing, etc. It is just that the expected performance and actual achievement does not match.Actually, in this disability, there is something to do with unableness. But there is actually a solution for this. It is not a kind of hopeless situation anyway.

Basically, this disorder even persists to individuals with normal intelligence, motivation to read, and educational opportunities. But it is the case in which a person finds a certain field difficult to learn like for instance people who have problems in mathematics, or in language, and many more to the point that they perform poorly in academics. But they certainly are not dull.

So basically, the common issues met by the sufferers of this are the following. One is the lack of comprehension skills during reading whether it is oral or silent. Aside from that, is the event of word omission and the reversal of letters and words. Still another case is the difficulty in decoding words and associating them with sounds. Not only that, they also have poor vocabulary.

With several studies, researches found out that the cause of this disorder is due to some mutations of genes corresponding to the language skills and that it is not necessarily inherited. That is because the ninety percent of individuals who have this do not belong to families with a history of the disorder. It is just that there is some malfunction in the language lobe of the brain.

But since this disability wastes much of what has to be perform in life, treatments were identified. Basically, the approach may vary since it has been agreed that the diagnosis be catered to. This means that the instruction would be customized as to the particular area of impairment an individual suffers.




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